Michiko Hoshi Movies

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Shogun), pawned his family heirloom, a valuable Gosu...

A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.

1958 Japanese movie

Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.

1962 Japanese movie

Okawa Hashizo as 'Young Lord', the unlikely sleuth sets out to untangle the riddle of what went on at the Inner Palace, where a young woman who had...

1978 Japanese film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi.

1961 Japanese movie

The first batch of flight control officer candidates, full of yearning for the sky, are assembled at the 101st Air Regiment base. Nakata, Sato, and...

A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.

Harima Aoyama (Chiyonosuke Azume) was a young hatamoto (samurai bannerman) to the Shogun. He seduced his commoner house maid Okiku (Hibari). He...

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...

The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The...

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.